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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. HugeGraph vs. Informix vs. OpenTSDB vs. TigerGraph

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonInformix  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSA secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things dataScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDBTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infowith Informix TimeSeries Extension
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Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score17.12
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.ibm.com/­products/­informixopentsdb.netwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iohugegraph.apache.org/­docsinformix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSGU8G/­welcomeIfxServers.html
opentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperChris DavisBaiduIBM, HCL Technologies infoEffective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release20062018198420112017
Current release0.914.10.FC5, November 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoLGPLcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC, C++ and JavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux
macOS
Unix
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyes infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnoSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
JDBC
JSON API infoMongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Telnet API
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Groovy
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsyesnoyes
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnovia hugegraph-sparknonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoedges in graphyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers, roles and permissionsUsers with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controlsnoRole-based access control

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